- Now, let's go ahead and look at zone delegation.…Zone delegation allows you to delegate a portion of the…administration of the DNS namespace to someone else.…This also allows you to divide up larger zones into…smaller subzones that are easier to manage.…One of the reasons we would do this is to distribute…the load from the various clients hitting the zone.…We want to distribute it over multiple smaller subzones…in order to take a load off of our DNS servers.…

If we do this, it will improve the overall performance of…our DNS over the entire network.…Now that we've discussed what zone delegation is,…let's go ahead and see how we'd go about doing…zone delegation.…Let's come up here to our Tools, under our domain control…that has our DNS controller on it, and come down to…"DNS", which will bring up our DNS manager.…Now we want to go ahead and expand our server,…and also our lookup zones, to find one of our zones…that we want to delegate.…

In this case, we will delegate the Landon Hotel zone.…So let's right-click on that, and come down here to…